just testing to see if my mail setup thing works all good...


"Bit Twister" <BitTwister@localhost.localdomain> wrote in message
news:slrnbjva7g.ra0.BitTwister@wb.home...
> On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 00:47:07 -0400, Jean-Louis Vill wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I want configure Postfix on my server. I already installed, but if I
> > want test it by sending a mail to myself. It not working.
>
> Looking at your errors I would try using the MD software manager to
> uninstall postfix and install postfix because of the alias.db error
> and to have a clean starting point.
>
> Also allows you to make copies of the original files to compare
> against and allows you to see what changes you made to what file.
> Your call on the clean install suggestion..
>
> Maybe you can use postmap to make aliases.db or maybe just a link problem.
>
> ls -al /etc/aliases
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root /etc/aliases -> /etc/alternatives/mta-etc_aliases
>
> ls -al /etc/alternatives/mta-etc_aliases
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root /etc/alternatives/mta-etc_aliases ->
> /etc/postfix/aliases
>
>
> To get mine to work I made just a few changes and added one line to
> main.cf and alias to send my email through my isp.
>
> Downside is messages to root are rerouted to bittwister in aliases.
> Then sender_canonical maps messages from bittwister to my isp
> email address and I see it when I check my isp email.
>
> Here is a difference listing of main.cf to show my changes
> diff legend:
> lines with > is the before change. line
> lines with < is the after change. line
> lines with numbers contain the line and character location of
changes.
>
>
>
> diff -bBw main.cf main.cf_orig
> 68d67
> < myhostname = wb.home
> 77d75
> < mydomain = home
> 306c304
> < relayhost = smtp.comcast.net
> ---
> > #relayhost = gateway.my.domain
> 348d345
> < sender_canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sender_canonical
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> sender_canonical_maps is used to convert my LAN login to my ISP
> email name because some MTAs check with my relayhost to verify
> the Return-Path email account is valid.
>
> cat sender_canonical
> bittwister my_email_addy@comcast.net
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> diff -bBw aliases aliases_orig
> 80,81c80
> < root: bittwister
> <
> ---
> > root: postfix
>
> If you change aliases you need to create the aliases.db with postmap
> Same with sender_canonical_maps
>
> After I change anything I do a
> postfix stop
> cp /dev/null /var/log/mail/errors
> cp /dev/null /var/log/mail/info
> cp /dev/null /var/log/mail/warnings
> cp /etc/resolv.conf /var/spool/postfix/etc/resolv.conf
> postfix start
>
> and check the /var/log/mail/* logs
>
> The cp /var/spool/postfix/etc/resolv.conf is because I am on dhcp
> from my isp and the spool copy needs to match the /etc copy.
>
> You might find some help in the debug file found with
> locate -i postfix | grep -i doc | grep -i debug
>
> You then cut/paste something like
> /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.0.6/README_FILES/DEBUG_README
> into your browser.
>